Saturday, April 6, 2013

More on defense spending

President
Eisenhower recognized the problem decades ago, coining the phrase military industrial complex. He also
said: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money
alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists
and the hopes of its children."

We
work to forge
swords into plows to end war (cf. Micah 4.3) but also to build economic prosperity
and societies that are conducive to human well-being.